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Miffed by a ban on Canadian seal imports by the EU, which charges cruelty in the annual hunt, the country's MPs have defiantly put seal meat on tomorrow's parliamentary lunch menu. By eating seal, a Liberal MP tells the Guardian, “all political parties will have the opportunity to demonstrate to the international community the solidarity of the Canadian parliament behind those who earn a living from the seal hunt.”

The EU ban covers the commercial hunt, which kills an estimated 275,000 seals a year, but exempts the traditional Inuit hunts. Canadian seal exports were worth $9.7 million last year, and the country is lobbying through official channels—as well as with their forks—to repeal the ban. It's not the first stunt pulled on behalf of seal exporters: Just last month, G7 leaders meeting in Iqaluit were offered seal meat by Inuit hunters, which an EU official called “quite a callous way to manipulate an indigenous community.”

We mine coal just to blacken American lungs in Canada. We pipeline filthy black oil to Americans too - just to upset their carbon footprint enough to sully their name world wide. We also kill thousands of pigs each day - murder them with electric prongs, just to fatten up American butts so they may be ridicules world over as over-fed oafs! Eating a bit of seal to promote the meat sales in China of this fine high vitamin product is only the tip of the iceberg - Canada has real evil intent! We mine and sell lead to poison American Children, Cadmium to kill off American mechanics, insecticide soaked grain for the American dinner table, Cattle soaked in hormones designed to "Ripen" American girls prematurely, Milk filled with hormones to give every American boy or girl a chance to become fully developed cannon fodder at age twelve, Beer filled with so much preservatives even the squirrels won't drink it, At one time Canada sold Asbestos - used by Americans in brake linings, and we damn near killed a whole generation of them! beware the Ugly Canadian and his poisoned wares for he is an evil carpet-bagger with unscrupulous ways, shysters, schmuck-meisters and crooks, even some banksters among them! Watch in particular for the French Canadian he is the most dangerous of all!

zackmasson

Mar 10, 2010 3:12 PM CST

It's amazing what a mob of jobless people who irrationally want to beat baby seals to death for a job will do. Kind of reminds me of loggers.

T-MAN

Mar 10, 2010 12:16 AM CST

Can someone club Parliament and eat them. Where's Dr. Hannibal when you need him?